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Table of Contents
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. v
1. Advisories ............................................................................................................................................... 1
2. Installation .............................................................................................................................................. 3
3. Licensing ................................................................................................................................................. 5
4. Documentation ....................................................................................................................................... 7
5. ANSYS Structural Products ..................................................................................................................... 9
5.1. Mechanical ....................................................................................................................................... 9
5.2. Mechanical APDL .............................................................................................................................. 9
5.3. Autodyn ........................................................................................................................................... 9
5.4. Aqwa .............................................................................................................................................. 10
5.5. ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP) ................................................................................................... 10
6. ANSYS Fluids Products .......................................................................................................................... 11
6.1. Fluent ............................................................................................................................................. 11
6.1.1. Meshing Mode ....................................................................................................................... 11
6.1.2. Solution Mode ....................................................................................................................... 11
6.2. CFX ................................................................................................................................................ 13
6.3. TurboGrid ....................................................................................................................................... 13
6.4. BladeModeler ................................................................................................................................. 13
6.5. CFD-Post ........................................................................................................................................ 13
6.6. Polyflow ......................................................................................................................................... 13
6.7. Forte .............................................................................................................................................. 13
6.8. Chemkin-Pro .................................................................................................................................. 13
6.9. FENSAP-ICE .................................................................................................................................... 14
7. ANSYS Electronics Products .................................................................................................................. 15
7.1. Icepak ............................................................................................................................................ 15
8. ANSYS Geometry & Mesh Prep Products .............................................................................................. 17
8.1. CAD Connections & Integration ....................................................................................................... 17
8.2. DesignModeler ............................................................................................................................... 17
8.3. Meshing ......................................................................................................................................... 17
8.4. IC Engine ........................................................................................................................................ 17
8.5. ICEM CFD ........................................................................................................................................ 17
9. ANSYS Simulation Products .................................................................................................................. 19
9.1. Workbench ..................................................................................................................................... 19
9.2. System Coupling ............................................................................................................................. 19
9.3. ANSYS ACT ..................................................................................................................................... 19
9.4. Remote Solve Manager (RSM) ......................................................................................................... 19
9.5. EKM ................................................................................................................................................ 19
9.6. DesignXplorer ................................................................................................................................ 19
10. ANSYS Discovery ................................................................................................................................. 21
10.1. ANSYS Discovery SpaceClaim ........................................................................................................ 21
10.2. ANSYS Discovery Live .................................................................................................................... 21
10.3. ANSYS Discovery AIM .................................................................................................................... 21

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Introduction
The following information is relevant to ANSYS, Inc. Release 19.0. The entries describe known non-op-
erational behavior, an error, or limitation at the time of this release. Work-arounds for these items, if
available, are included in the respective descriptions. Inclusion in this document does not imply the issues
and limitations are applicable to future releases.

The parenthetical numbers associated with each entry are reference numbers corresponding to an in-
ternal error tracking system. The numbers are included to help to facilitate ANSYS, Inc. technical support
and help to ensure that the issue described in the entry is resolved.

Service packs may become available for some of the entries.

Additional known issues and limitations may be found in the product Help and/or release notes, both
accessible in the ANSYS Help.

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Chapter 1: Advisories
No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

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Chapter 2: Installation
No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

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Chapter 3: Licensing
No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

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Chapter 4: Documentation
No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

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Chapter 5: ANSYS Structural Products
5.1. Mechanical
The Mechanical Composite Failure Tool may interfere with Python distributions that install pywin32 on
the system (e.g. Anaconda). Work-around: Remove pywin32 from the system before using the Composite
Failure Tool. (149276)

When running Mechanical APDL on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (including SP1, SP2, and SP3), the
program may crash unexpectedly. The following are typical Traceback messages where these crashes
may occur.

Current ANSYS Traceback:

• loadhiswrite

• solvcl

• ANSYS

Current ANSYS Traceback:

• nonlmonitor

• svkan

• solvcl

• ANSYS

Work-around: Prepend the following path to the user's LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable:
/lib64/noelision/ (162474)

If the semi-elliptical crack definition has the mesh method selected as Tetrahedrons and if it uses the
co-ordinate system which has transformations done like rotations greater than 90 degrees, then "Gen-
erate All Crack Meshes" operation might fail and the crack mesh will not be generated. Work-around:
Use the Hex dominant mesh method or avoid transformed configuration of the selected co-ordinate
system at higher angles. (163854)

5.2. Mechanical APDL

No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

5.3. Autodyn
No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

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5.4. Aqwa
No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

5.5. ANSYS Composite PrepPost (ACP)

No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

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Chapter 6: ANSYS Fluids Products
6.1. Fluent
The following sections list new or recently discovered limitations known to exist in version 19.0.
6.1.1. Meshing Mode
6.1.2. Solution Mode

6.1.1. Meshing Mode

Documentation

• The description for the mesh/domains/create command was incomplete. In addition to creating a new
domain based on the specified boundary faces, the command also requires valid boundary zones to be
specified, otherwise the command will generate an error. (155258)

CAD Import

• When importing CAD assemblies within Fluent in meshing mode, Fluent is likely to become unresponsive.
Work-around: Pass an absolute path while using CAD assemblies. (163280)

6.1.2. Solution Mode

Solver-Numerics

• The default "early protection" scheme (which is designed to improve convergence or avoid divergence
for cases in which the algebraic multigrid solver previously experienced convergence difficulties) can
in some cases result in longer overall calculation times compared to previous releases. If you experience
a loss of performance without the benefits of this more robust setting, you can revert to the previous
behavior by entering the following text command prior to solving: solve/set/previous-de-
faults/undo-r19.0-default-changes? no yes.

User Interface

• Mesh zones (which can, for example, be displayed from the Adjacency dialog box) are not available
for left-click selection in the graphics window.

Models

• When using the discrete phase model, the Use DPM Domain option of the Hybrid parallel DPM
tracking mode will not be used in the following situations:

– if the case has a dynamic zone

– if the case has a sliding interface

For further limitations for such cases, see Limitations on Using the Hybrid Parallel Method.

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• For DPM cases that do not use DDPM, the node-based averaging and source term linearization are
no longer compatible. When opening a non-DDPM case set up in a previous release with both options
enabled, ANSYS Fluent will automatically disable the node-based averaging option.

Remote Visualization

• Using a virtual private network (VPN) for remote visualization may not work in some situations due
to certain firewall security measures in place at the server site. Any disruption in the VPN and/or in-
ternet connection may cause an unexpected failure. (158449)

• Residuals will plot on the client even if residual plotting is disabled on the server. (162848)

Cell Registers

• When using the parallel version of Fluent, if you apply poor mesh numerics to a cell register and then
adapt that cell register, Fluent is likely to terminate abnormally and display the following error message
in the console:
The fl process could not be started.

Work-around: Perform the adaption using the serial version of Fluent, write the case file, then read
the case into the parallel version of Fluent to perform the solution. (163312)

Graphics, Reporting, and Postprocessing

• You cannot create a surface transform on a line surface. To create a transformed line surface you
must manually translate the input points and create a new line surface in the Line/Rake Surface
dialog box. (156027)

• Density contour plots that include a solid region in the display will include the solid zone(s) in any
range calculations and will show a density for the solid that does not reflect the actual case setup.
Fluid zone densities are still displayed correctly. Selecting Density... and Density All in the Contours
of drop-down lists will correctly display density values for solids and fluids. (155346)

• Special characters (/^*%@,<>{}()?&~!=) should not be used in object names: they can affect how an
object is rendered in the graphics display, and may make it so the object does not appear at all.
(157473)

• For annotations, the foreground and background color options for text are not in sync with those
specified in Preferences, but are instead controlled using the display/set/colors/foreground
and display/set/colors/background text commands, respectively. Note that background
can only be modified from the console when Fluent is launched with Workbench Color Scheme
disabled. (160899)

File / Data Import and Export

• Custom field functions based on report definitions are not available for export in CGNS, I-deas Uni-
versal, Mechanical APDL Input, NASTRAN, PATRAN, and Tecplot formats. (162070)

Installation Guidelines

• Running ANSYS Fluent on Cray systems requires a minimum of Cray Linux Environment 6.0 update
03 (based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12). (164257)

For a list of ongoing Fluent limitations listed in previous ANSYS, Inc. Release Notes, refer to Known
Limitations in ANSYS Fluent 19.0 in the Fluent Getting Started Guide.

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6.2. CFX
No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

6.3. TurboGrid
No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

6.4. BladeModeler
No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

6.5. CFD-Post
On Linux, when writing a report to an .arz file, you must save to the same partition as your home dir-
ectory, otherwise the html file of the report might be missing from the contents of the .arz file. (154720)

6.6. Polyflow
On Windows 10, if ANSYS has been installed on a drive where the OS is not installed, programs may
not start when launched within Polyman. Work-around: Before installing ANSYS, open the Command
Prompt as administrator and run fsutil behavior set disable8dot3 0. (154569)

For the Red Hat 6.x platform, you may encounter a library incompatibility when running the Polyflow
solver (applicable to ANSYS 18.2 and 19.0). For example:

v190/polyflow/polyflow19.0.0/lnamd64/bin/apiphelper:
/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found (re-
quired by v190/polyflow/polyflow19.0.0/lnamd64/libs/libApipWrap-
per.so)

Work-around: Copy the libstdc++.so.6 and libgcc_s.so.1 libraries from an-

sys_inc/v190/polyflow/polyflow19.0.0/lnamd64/libs/add_libs/ into an-
sys_inc/v190/polyflow/polyflow19.0.0/lnamd64/libs/. (154066)

6.7. Forte
GT-Power Link

• In a GT-Power model, DX specifies the CFD domain sampling length of the artificial-GT-power sub-
volume neighbor across the CFD interface. To avoid stability issues stemming from coupling, the
volumetric average pressure is computed from all CFD cells extending DX length from the GT-Power
coupling interface into the CFD domain. DX is usually larger than the CFD cell. However, the imple-
mentation in r19.0 uses a fixed DX length equal to the CFD cell size at the boundary. This may result
in some numerical spikes in variables at the coupling interface. Using a refinement depth no finer
than 1/2 at the open boundaries in Forte should help reduce such spikes. (163685)

6.8. Chemkin-Pro
No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

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6.9. FENSAP-ICE
No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

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Chapter 7: ANSYS Electronics Products
For entries specific to the Electronics Products, see the Known Issues and Limitations section of the
Readme.txt document distributed with the Electronics products.

7.1. Icepak
The Krylov utility does not work if a user is remotely accessing a CentOS 6.8 machine that runs this
utility but the problem is not seen if the user directly accesses the host CentOS 6.8 machine. (162023)

In new x64 bit Linux machines [Cent OS 7.4] the 32-bit version packages that drive the executable are
missing.

• For missing libX11.so.6 install libX11.i686 since steptotin is 32 bit.

• For missing libXt.so.6 install libXt.i686

• For missing libstdc++.so.5 modify search path.

(162240)

You cannot create a JPEG image of a project in Linux [Cent OS / RHEL] because the utility that creates
JPEG is a 32bit application that does not find the requisite 32-bit libraries on the system. Resolution:
Install the 32-bit version libjepegso.62 by referring to a package taken from http://rpmfind.net/linux/
rpm2html/search.php?query=libjpeg.so.62

After installation, make sure libjpeg.so.62 is available at /usr/lib/

Similarly, the tool that creates a PNG image is also a 32-bit version and expects the relevant version
package installed on the system to function. (163417)

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8.1. CAD Connections & Integration
No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

8.2. DesignModeler
No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

8.3. Meshing
No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

8.4. IC Engine
No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

8.5. ICEM CFD

No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

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Chapter 9: ANSYS Simulation Products
9.1. Workbench
Specific to the Linux operating systems, use of AMD graphics cards WX5100 and FirePro W4100 with
the latest drivers causes the ANSYS DesignModeler and ANSYS Mechanical applications to crash. Work-
around: Direct Workbench to use an older, but more compatible graphics library by running the following
command prior to launching Workbench:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/ansys_inc/v190/Framework/bin/Linux64/Mesa
(160623)

9.2. System Coupling

No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

9.3. ANSYS ACT

See the ANSYS ACT 19.0 Known Issues and Limitations document on the ACT Resources page on the
ANSYS Customer Portal.

9.4. Remote Solve Manager (RSM)

No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

9.5. EKM
No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

9.6. DesignXplorer
No known issues, limitations, or documentation inaccuracies.

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Chapter 10: ANSYS Discovery
10.1. ANSYS Discovery SpaceClaim
When running design points on SpaceClaim geometry that utilizes script parameters, Workbench may
warn that the parameter update was incorrect when it in fact does apply the attempted design para-
meter value. When this occurs, SpaceClaim will report a different assigned parameter value even though
the geometry is updated with the attempted design parameter value. Users are advised to double-check
their designs if they see this message during a design point update on geometry which makes use of
script parameters. (163582)

10.2. ANSYS Discovery Live

If a velocity condition is set to point out of the domain (to "pull" the fluid out), some cases will not
converge. In these cases, there is some stable flow in the correct direction, but the velocity magnitudes
may be order-of-magnitudes smaller than expected. This may be important in cases where the outflow
rate is known, but not the inflow (presumably from multiple inlets). (164022)

10.3. ANSYS Discovery AIM

When launching AIM from Live with the Workbench > AIM 19.0 (With Physics) button, errors may occur.
Work-around: Retry launching AIM from Workbench > AIM (With Physics) or save the Live session to
an .scdoc file and open it in a standalone session of AIM using the Connect to Discovery Live template.
(161988)

Without an active subscription license to ANSYS Discovery Live, selection of the "Export to Discovery
Live" option in the "Connect to discovery live" template on the AIM home page triggers an ANSYS Li-
censing Interconnect Application message that stops the process from completing. Work-around: Use
the ANSYS Discovery Suite installation package. (163305)

In a structural solution, when a reference frame other than the Global Reference Frame is selected for
Moment Reaction results, the reported results may be incorrect. Work-around: Use the Global Reference
Frame to evaluate structural Moment Reaction results. (163786)

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